The little Buddhist monk & the proof /
The Little Buddhist Monk is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increasingly distraught French couple on a working vacation in the Far East. Proof brings us quickly back to the West, where two punks, plus a new recruit ("Wannafuc...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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New York :
New Directions Publishing Corporation,
[2017]
New York : New Directions, 2017 |
| Edition: | Advance readers' copy |
| Series: | New Directions paperbook
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| Summary: | The Little Buddhist Monk is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increasingly distraught French couple on a working vacation in the Far East. Proof brings us quickly back to the West, where two punks, plus a new recruit ("Wannafuck?" is the opening line as the two punk lesbians accost the chubby and shy Marcia on a quiet street in Buenos Aires), take control of a local supermarket with dire consequences for the hostages. These two Aira works are as different as night and day. Nevertheless, sex, identity, and modern day economics figure deeply in both of these fast-paced, edgy fictions The Little Buddhist Monk is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increasingly distraught French couple on a working vacation in the Far East. Proof brings us quickly back to the West, where two punks, plus a new recruit (“Wannafuck?” is the opening line as the two punk lesbians accost the chubby and shy Marcia on a quiet street in Buenos Aires), take control of a local supermarket with dire consequences for the hostages. These two Aira works are as different as night and day. Nevertheless, sex, identity, and modern day economics figure deeply in both of these fast-paced, edgy fictions |
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| Item Description: | This Yale-originated record is shareable under Creative Commons license CC0 Translated from the Spanish "A New Directions paperback original." "Originally published by Grupo Editor Latinoamericano, Argentina, as La prueba in 1992 and by Mansalva, Argentina, as El pequeño monje budista in 2005; published in conjunction with the Literary Agency Michael Gaeb/Berlin"--Title page verso |
| Physical Description: | 170 pages ; 18 cm |
| ISBN: | 0811221121 9780811221122 |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- New York (State) -- New York United States -- New York -- New York |